I thought to put a scale model - with the distance between the earth and the sun being roughly 100 million miles shrunk to 1mm. On such a scale the distance between one side of our Galaxy and the other would equate to the distance between London and Los Angeles. Every millimeter between London and LA representing a distance of 100 million miles. Its ridiculous !
While I totally dig that visual scale, we can still see stars well beyond that scale with the naked eye, including the center of the Galaxy. If fact, we can see other Galaxy's within our local cluster without the aid of a telescope, however, most of the stars we see in the night sky are in the milky way.
I'm enjoying all your lectures, and sharing them too! Thanks for putting them online.
Very nice description of the size and structure of the Milky Way Galaxy. Good job. Thank you.
I thought to put a scale model - with the distance between the earth and the sun being roughly 100 million miles shrunk to 1mm.
On such a scale the distance between one side of our Galaxy and the other would equate to the distance between London and Los Angeles. Every millimeter between London and LA representing a distance of 100 million miles.
Its ridiculous !
While I totally dig that visual scale, we can still see stars well beyond that scale with the naked eye, including the center of the Galaxy. If fact, we can see other Galaxy's within our local cluster without the aid of a telescope, however, most of the stars we see in the night sky are in the milky way.
Very interesting. Thanks! :)
Lexithyia Star Thank you for watching!
Thank you
My Galaxy fits in my pocket
3:30 that is a cool galaxy xd
very nice video but please use metric system units.
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